MN to LA

On Friday, Dec. 21st we left on our 2 day drive to Louisiana.  We were going to leave around 6:00 am, but Iowa got a huge snowstorm the day before and made the roads there a complete mess, so we had to push back our start time to 9:30/

Good-bye house!

Happy kids ready to go to Gramy and Grampy's!

And here we are in Iowa.  The roads we completely covered in ice and there were cars and trucks and semi's off the road for miles!  I bet we saw 100 cars that had slid off the road.  It was crazy.  We were so grateful we were kept safe.

 It took us over 6 hours to get to Des Moines, and it was only suppose to take 3 1/2.  Luckily both kids crashed after lunch.

 And after 9 hours we finally made it to Missouri!

 About an hour out of Kansas City we stopped for some dinner at good ole subway, Jackson's fav.

We stayed the night in Joplin, MO and this crazy cat was up a tree in the hotel parking lot.  The kids got a kick out of it.  And we were thrilled to get out of the car and not even need a coat!  Londyn was super excited to see grass too.

 Saturday we drove though Arkansas and Louisiana.  The weather was sooo much better than the day before.  Northern Arkansas was beautiful.  Then a little before lunch time we hit the back roads and were done with the lovely freeway = (.  And at about 6:30 pm we made it to Lake Chuck with 2 happy, but tired kiddos!  They traveled so well!!  We were blown away!